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Peacekeeping troops from Chad fired into a crowd of protesters on the edge of
the capital of the Central African ­Republic yesterday, killing at least one
person and injuring about 40 more.

The incident, outside the French garrison at the airport at Bangui, added to
tension between the majority Christian population and Muslims who support
Michel Djotodia, a rebel who seized the presidency in a coup last March.

The Chadian soldiers, who are part of a UN-mandated force, opened fire on
stone-throwing demonstrators who accused them of complicity with Muslim
rebels known as the Seleka. It emerged last night that